Power For Good

05/01/2026

Power for Good is in the process of selling our three solar arrays to Big Solar Co-operative, as agreed at our last AGM. Once this has happened we will dissolve ourselves as a Society. We have come to the conclusion we need to do this as the members of the Board are not getting any younger... Thank you very much to all of our supporters for investing in us and making our three arrays possible, to the benefit of our three host churches. In many ways it's been a successful 10 years, but now is the time to hand over the baton.
All our members will receive a repayment of their capital over the next few months, once the sale has been completed. We would like to encourage those of you who can, to reinvest in Big Solar.

The Big Solar Co-op is a not-for-profit, carbon-first and people-powered organisation. We’re solarising commercial and community buildings all over the UK from doctors surgeries to factories and…

08/02/2024

Our next AGM will be held
On Thursday 7th March, 7pm for refreshments, 7.30 for the business part of the meeting, and approx 8.15 for our speaker.
At New Life Baptist Church, 80 High St, King's Heath, Birmingham B14 7JZ
We will welcome Naomi Standen as our speaker. Naomi is Chair of York Supplies Community Society Limited, a local CBS, who have just held a successful community share offer that has enabled them to purchase the nearby York Supplies business. Naomi will share the York Supplies story with us.
All welcome. You will need to be a member to vote in the business part. For more information on membership please see our website www.power-for-good.org

27/02/2023

For our AGM this year, we are very pleased to welcome Professor Tim Gorringe, Emeritus professor of Theological Studies, Exeter University. He will be speaking on:

Ekklesia: vision of a new world order

St Andrew’s Church, Dudley St, Carters Green,
West Bromwich, B70 9LR.
Wednesday 8 March 2023, at 7.00pm, starting with refreshments.


Tim Gorringe is an Anglican priest and theologian. He has written widely on many subjects, including ethics and environmental justice. His latest book, published in 2020 by Lexington Books is ‘Word, Silence, and the Climate Emergency: God, Ekklesia, and Christian Doctrine’.

Please invite anyone you feel may be interested.

7.30 - 8pm is the Power for Good annual AGM. Tim Gorringe will begin his talk from 8pm. Non-members are welcome to come to the whole meeting or arrive at 8pm to hear Professor Gorringe.



Getting to St Andrew’s :
• by Midland Metro (the Birmingham New Street to Wolverhampton tram line – church is 50 yards from Dudley Street/Guns Village stop (turn right from stop and walk – slightly - up hill).
• by bus: 74 (Birmingham to Dudley) stops 50 yards from church (Carters Green) and runs approx. every ten minutes.
• by car: parking is available on adjacent YMCA/Church carpark, and on Pay and Display area by clock tower – free at night.
• church has disability access. Disabled bay available on road outside church, and on YMCA car park.

15/08/2022

Congratulations to Big Solar on already achieving 80% of the capital needed on their first share offer. See below for more information. Might you be one of the investors that take them over the line?

21/07/2022

Power for Good is in need of new Board members.
To be eligible to apply you need to be a member, either by being a share-holder, or by buying a £1 share.
Please get in touch if you would like to be part of the renewables revolution for places of worship!
www.power-for-good.org

28/07/2021

Just seen this petition about supporting The Local Electricity Bill, which is about removing the barriers to community energy. Please have a read, and sign if you agree.

Sign now and support community groups like OVESCO

31/05/2021

We have changed our website address. It is now www.power-for-good.org

Power for Good is a community energy society, owned and controlled by our members.

23/01/2021

Support the Local Electricity Bill

The UK is not meeting its climate change targets. Our recovery from COVID-19 must also accelerate the low-carbon transition to prevent dangerous levels of warming by the end of the century1.

The Local Electricity Bill can play a key role. If made law, it would unleash the huge potential for more small-scale renewable energy generation by empowering community energy groups to sell their clean energy directly to local people. This would strengthen local economies and tackle climate change simultaneously.

https://powerforpeople.org.uk/the-local-electricity-bill/petition-1/?utm_source=facebookads&utm_medium=link_post&utm_campaign=leb_petition_p16_core&utm_content=ovesco&fbclid=IwAR2Jz0GlBfBBG_bRN8lZ9XBe_YHA6eCul22Ev30hCZblw76Tz52Gkl4fd1U

The UK is not meeting its climate change targets. Our recovery from COVID-19 must also accelerate the low-carbon transition to prevent dangerous levels of warming by the end of the century1.

02/10/2018

This sounds like an interesting event if you are free on Tuesday 9th October: